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Mike Bloomberg: “Government should not tell you what to do unless there’s a compelling public purpose”

In voicing his support for same-sex marriage, Mayor Bloomberg has mentioned — and appeared with — his niece Rachel, who is lesbian. “It brings it home,” he told me on the phone this week, though he added that beyond his desire for her to have everything she wants in life, “Government should not tell you what to do unless there’s a compelling public purpose.” He sees no such purpose in blocking same-sex marriage.

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Exactly what you’d expect to hear someone who made billions of dollars in the private sector and at the same time thinks he knows how everyone should live their lives via micromanaging regulation in the public sector.

Only brain-dead zombies could listen to that without either laughing out loud or punching the wall. Unfortunately, the government (public) school system is now pumping out about 3 million brain-dead zombies every year.

Homeschooling is the only hope for my children, your children, and the U.S.A.

“It brings it home,” he told me on the phone this week, though he added that beyond his desire for her to have everything she wants in life, “Government should not tell you what to do unless there’s a compelling public purpose.”

Is a compelling public purpose that the gay lifestyle must be incorporated into educational curricula (curriculums?) beginning at a very early age?

I’m sorry, but doesn’t the state have a compelling public purpose to protect the basic foundation of society? Look- we already pushed through the sexual revolution and we said goodbye to gender roles long ago, and look where that got us. Now, let’s just toss aside the very foundation of society and transform it to fit out will.

Now, we’re in a situation to where, not to be hypocrites, we have to demand that we allow ANYONE to marry ANYONE else, no matter how “odd” we find it, because finding something odd is code for being a bigot and hating things you don’t “understand.”